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kleinbl00 · 3339 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture
Have you dug into the history of Wonder Woman? Mile-high view: William Marston was a pervy bisexual polyandrist into BDSM who maintained a wife and a girlfriend simultaneously. The psychologist instrumental in the sham science of the polygraph also created the "Lasso of Truth" and initially created Wonder Woman as a black-patent-leather-wearing dominatrix from the Amazon. The "subtext" was "text" until William Gaines argued that Wonder Woman probably shouldn't look quite so much like a whips'n'chains Nazi fantasy.